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Dundee, Lochee Road, Dudhope Works
Mill (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Dundee, Lochee Road, Dudhope Works
Classification Mill (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Marketgait
Canmore ID 31982
Site Number NO33SE 75
NGR NO 39700 30520
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/31982
- Council Dundee, City Of
- Parish Dundee (Dundee, City Of)
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District City Of Dundee
- Former County Angus
Publication Account (2013)
DUDHOPE WORKS (FERGUSSON’S)
Chimney of 1837, the oldest free-standing chimney in the city is connected by a flue under Douglas Street to a weaving shed of 1837. A new factory was built in the curve of Lochee Road in 1950 (NO 39670 30588). An intervening turreted block of 1892 is now a carpark. Further west on Douglas Street, north side, there is a TA Hall (NO39639 30552); the courtyard-plan Henderson’s leatherworks (Dudhope Tannery, NO 39620 30549) made straps for looms and driving belts.
M Watson, 2013
Note
Dundee, Lochee Road, Dudhope Works
NO33SE 75
NO39700 30520
There is a vets’ practice in half of the original weaving shed, built 1837 and oldest left in Scotland (?). The roofs are equal-sided and steel girders were later threaded across them to help tenters install beams into looms, and also to carry the new arrangement of line shafts. Fergusson’s took over from Rowan in 1839. The second weaving shed built in Dundee, after Baxter’s, 1836.
Information from Mark Watson, HES, 19 February 2025.
